The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERsONAI. AND POLITICAI..

ALEXANDER MITCHELL, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul railroad,
died at the Hoffman House, New York, on
the 18th, Of disease of the heart
THE President has appointed Sigourney
Butler, of Boston, to be Second Comptrol-
Ter Of the Treasury, in place Of Judge May
nard, promoted TO the Assistant Secretary
ship of the Treasury.
THE Paris Temps says the malady from
which the German Crown Prince is suffer
ing is cancer of the tongue.
THE conferences between the delegates of
the Austrian and Hungarian Governments
have resulted in unanimous decision TO
maintain the existing compromise.
PARwANA, the Afghan commander sent
by the Ameer OF Afghanistan with force
of 5000 men to avenge the recent massacre
of Gholam Haider Khan, the Governor of
Maruf. by the Ghilzais, whose rebellion he
set out to suppress, was met and routed
south of Ghuzni by the rebels.
ANTI-LICENsE tickets were elected in
many small places in Illinois on the 10Th.
Most of the cities declared for license.
LIEUTENANT JOHN w. DANENHowER, the
Arctic explorer, shot and killed himself at
the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, on the
Goth. He had mental trouble after he came
DdCh lTOH Une AfCIlC region.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has reaf-
firmed his former opinion that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury does not possess the
power of remission in the case of the Amer
lean schooner San Diego seized for taking
seals at the Alaska islands in violation of
law.
EXERCISES in honor Of the memory of ex-
President Arthur were held in the Assem-
bly, Chamber at Albany, N. Y, on the Goth.
GENERAL BoULANGER, the French Minis
ter of War, has reduced his estimates for
the army by Is, 600, 600 francs.
A BILL for the total prohibition of the
liquor traffic in the colony of Newfoundland
was defeated in the Assembly recently by
the casting of vote by the Speaker
JOHN B. SMITH, president of the Bank of
Commerce of Louisville KY, and one of
the sinking fund commissioners of that city,
died recently.
TIE West Virginia Legislature met in
extra session on the Goth.
QUEEN KAPIOLAU1 and her suite of the
Hawaiian kingdom reached San Francisco
on the 20th on their way to England.
NJ. SCHNABELE. special French Com
missary at Pagny sur Moselle department,
has been arrested by German police.
The arrest gave rise to considerable war
talk in Paris newspapers.
A COMMITTEE of local assembly 1923,
Knights of Labor, Chicago, has sent an ad-
dress to General Master Workman Pow
derly protesting against his rejoicing over
the defeat of the United Labor ticket in
Chicago. The address claims that Mr.. Pow
derly's remarks have a tendency to bring
the order into disrepute.
MAJOR +. W. BENTON, of the Ninth cav
airy, was recently sentenced by a court
martial to be dismissed from the service for
drunkenness. The President has commuted
the sentence to one years suspension from
rank and duty on half pay.
MAJOR JOHN f. BLAINE, paymaster,
brother of James G.. Blaine, died at Hot
Springs Ark, on the 2lst.
Two deputy recorders of votes were SEN
fenced in the United States court at st.
Louis on the 2lst to terms in the Jail for
fraudulent registration of voters last fall.
J. j. Prendergast was given one year III
jail and j. J. Stanley three months.
COMMANDER GREEN, of the United States
ship Eantic, now at New Orleans, declares
that the stories of the British Hayti troubles
have been greatly exaggerated.
ANTI-CONFEDERATION resolutions were in
troduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature re-
Gently. There was talk of annexation to
the United States.
THE President has appointed Edward F.
Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Chief Justice Cartier.
A SPECIAL from Washington states that
President Cleveland will not accept a re-
nomination.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire iron
manufacturer of Pittsburgh, Pa, was mar
ried on the 22d to Miss Whitfield daughter
of the late John W. Whitfield, at the brides
residence, 35 West Forty-eighth street,
New York
THE constitutional amendment passed the
Mexican House of Deputies on the 2lst by
an overwhelming majority; l24 Deputies
voted for and only 10 against it. The
proposition allows one reelection of a
President. 1t now goes to the Senate
where it w.h probably be passed without
debate The ratification by the State
Legislatures is assured